US1286631A - Educational appliance. - Google Patents

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Patented Dec. 3; 1918.

G.T.H|LL'YARD.

TIONAL APPLIANCE.

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other object is to construct a set of blocks ralsnal phonograms,

521 29th St., in the city `ed claims; it being UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

GRACE T. HILLYAED, or OAKLAND, CALIEENIA.

EnUcATIoNAL AIPPLIANCE.

To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, GRACE T. HmLYARD, citizen of the United' States, residing at of Oakland; in the countyof Alameda and State of California, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Educational Appliances, of which the following is a specification.r

This invention relates to improvements in educational appliances and more specifically to a set of spelling blocks from which words, i -more particularly may those of mnosyllabic type be formed.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an improved form of blocks for use in elementary school,- work whereby the pupil is taught the formation of the simglr the consonants or having on certain ones -combination 'of consonants which form the initial part ofthe words and on others of the set honograms which form the terminal part o such words.

It will be understood, however, that while I have illustrated and described the blocks as having the initial consonants and termithe set could just as readilyl be constructed by using the initial phonoams and terminal consonants. Still another object of the invention is to provide a colored background on those blocks on which the phonograms are printed, the colors being those of the spectrum and being arranged on the blocks so that the colors in their proper orderV are when the phonograms are'arranged in alphabetical order of the initial vowel.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combinations and arrangements of arts 'hereinafter described and' more spec' cally pointed out in the appendunderstood that changes in form, proportion, size, andA minorA features of construction within the scope of the claims may be resorted to without departing from theY spirit of the invention or i sacrificing any .of the advantagzges'thereof.l

To more fully 'comprehend the invention reference should be ad to the drawings forming a part' of the speciiication and vvwherein z Figure is a view in perspective of one Specification of Letters Patent.

, Application inea April 2, 1

presented i Patented Dec. 3, 1918.

917. Serial' No. 159,372.

of those blocks whereon the initial consonants appear.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of one ofthose blocks whereon is shown phonogramsv beginning with the vowel a.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but showing a blockhaving phonograms beginning with e.

Fig. 4 is a view in elevationy of a block whereon the phonograms begin with i,

Fig. 5 is a view in elevation of a block whereon the phonograms begin with o.

Fig. 6 is a view in elevation of a block having phonograms the initial, letter of which is u.

Fig. 7 1s a view 1n plan of a set of blocks constructed in accordance with my invention.

Referring to the various parts by the-same numerals of reference, my blocks are preferably constructed in the usual cubical shape as illustrated in Figs; 1, to 3 inclusive, and may be divided int'o two classes; those having on each face a single letter which is a consonant, a digraph or a combination of consonants such as spl: and those having denoted by 1 y on each face a phonogram.

Blocks 'of the former class all have a white surface, and these blocks are approximately equal in number to the number of the `other class. The arrangement of the letters on these blocks' may be as desired.. for instance all the letters on a single block may be the same, or they `may be in pairs on opposite faces, or as illustrated in the drawing the letter on each face may be different. In addition to carrying the initial consonants these blocks carry the `digraphs ch, gh, .sh and .th as shown at 3 and also such combinations as spl and ithr as shown at 4. y

rl`he blocks that carry the phonograms and which kare denoted generally colored surfaces, the a ,i o u w and y phonogramsbeing printedon red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo an violet respectively, thus when thephonograms are arranged in the o rder of their respective initial vowel, the colors of 'the spectrum are presented in their proper order. In use'the children are taught to place one of the white blocks inv front of one of the colored ones thus forming a simple word. By a little assistance they are-soon able to 10sL l pronounce and recognize these words and -then to form short sentences.

p I claim as new and wish to cover by Letters Patent: v

1. A set of blocks comprising letter blocks land phonogramblocks, each of the former 3. A set of blocks comprising letter lolocksground, the

and phonogram blocks, each of the former having'initial consonants -on ya white background on each of the faces, and each-of the latter having phonograms on a colored backphonograms having the same initial vowel, background.V g y 4. A set of blocks comprising two groups,

Vone group having a white surface and initial consonants on the faces thereof, the

other group having surfaces comprising the 30 colors'of the spectrum and having phonogramson the faces thereof, the initial vowel of the phonograms and the colored surfaces on which the phonograms are printed .being and spectrum respectively.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

GRACE T. HILLYARD.

-in the same relative order in the alphabet 35" Y having also the same colored 25

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